December 20, 2024 • 40 mins
Welcome back to the Vikings Tailgate presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. The Vikings are heading to the 'Emerald City' and big-time comedian Adam Ray joins Cy Amundson to talk through his love for Seattle sports. Adam talks about roasting the Steelers and Seahawks players, his friendship with Sam Darnold, the culture shift of the Pete Carroll era, the emotions surrounding the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, and the special memories made by taking his nephew to his first Seahawks game. All of this and more is on episode 50 of the Vikings Tailgate presented by Ticketmaster - The official ticket marketplace of the Minnesota Vikings. Adam Ray is all over the country right now for his 'Dr. Phil Live!' tour and will be coming to the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis on March 2nd. Be sure to grab your tickets for his shows right here: https://mnvkn.gs/4fy9E6K
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Rocket Rocket I here, Ladies and gentlemen, we are joined
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by the great Adam Ray. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Man, happy to be here. First time caller, longtime listener.
Your beer looks great. Just does the carpet match the drapes?
That's what everybody wants to know.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's very I'm oscillating between guy in a cult and
guy you wouldn't want to be your wife's yoga teacher.
That's where that's I have entered into the era where
I am wearing one of these women's headbands like a
European soccer player. And it's not You would not like
the version of me that exists right now. Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well I'll tell you, I'll tell you who who would
love that? The what's your mascot's name?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The Viking?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'm gonna get fired from my show, Victor, Victor, the Victor,
the Viking. Yeah, I knew he.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Was a Viking.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That would be this would be the end of the podcast,
was like, what's the who's your what's the mascot for you?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But you know It's like, there's you know, the Clippers have,
Like what Paulie the Parrot or Peter the Plan.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's something that has nothing to do with clipping.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, they should move to Seattle anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But but there's uh who's the Raiders have? What's what's
his deal? Is it just uh Bo Jackson's Bow and
arrow store?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
What's the only one I remember is the Chargers mascot,
which is Bolt, who's a lightning bolt that when you
take his glasses off, looks like he's been huffing dried
up red bull.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Like it's who has done that?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah? He's a wild He's a wild looking dude. Man,
I'm you joined the show. I know I'm a I'm
a die hard Vikings fan, but I'm also a huge
NBA guy and I see the Sonics hat on you,
and it's hard. I'm going to come back to that
because I will derail an entire football show talking about
Sean Campen, the tragedy that your city doesn't have a team.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, let's talk about my parents' divorce first.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You want to really just build up to the extreme
sadness that has filled the late two thousands.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Of my life.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, I mean, I'm a Diard Seattle sports fan, you know,
speaking of football, and just you know, I know that's
what we're here to discuss. But in the matchup between
my Hawks and your Vikes on Sunday, which is a
way bigger game for us.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Than it is for you guys, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I mean, I know you guys are trying to secure
home field, but you know we are trying to not
blow the division and and not slipping as a wild
card again, which doesn't we just that's not our route.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I guess it was our route the first Super Bowl year.
Oh wait, no, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We had home field advantage there, so you you always
want to the fans are the twelves as we call
him are are definitely a factor. But I was just
up in Seattle last week for the Green Bay game.
You know, John Schneider, our GM is a good buddy
of mine, and he saw a video of me roasting
the Steelers last August. They had hit me up because
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I was doing shows at the Improv out there, and
they're like, do you want to come in a day early?
We have our rookie talent show and we'd love you
to host it. So I got all these roast jokes.
I thought that was just me be the rookies. It's
the whole squad. Tomlin's in there, Russ and Fields are
front row. I had one Russ joke and Russ laughed,
and I was like.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Russ laughed, We're fine. And every time I do a
joke that people grown dad, I'd be like, Russ liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I don't know what to tell you guys. But so
then Schneider was like, you got to do that for
the Hawks. So I went up there and did it
Saturday morning, which is a great time for comedy, like
eight forty five, after their quick morning meeting.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And it was awesome though.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Man, I had had a great moment with DK, and
it was my first time meeting Mike McDonald and he's
just a stud and and and had been following me
for a bit, so he's a comedy guy. And I
go DKs here, everyone goes, oh, go to his birthday, K,
what do you want for your birthday?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He goes, No more jokes out of your.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Ass, and everybody's like oh, and I go, well, strap up, bitch.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I got twenty logged.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And loaded and then we just kind of went down
the line on most of the players, but they were
all like great sports about it. I'm probably gonna post
some clips to that and the next week or so,
depending on if we win Sunday and can ride some momentum.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But yeah, dude, diehard.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Hot is that? Like? So we had Al Madrigal was
on earlier this year, and you know, he's like lifelong Niners,
and so he did something similar for the Niners and
they liked it so much that they had him come
and roast. This is the craziest thing I've ever heard.
Al roasted the NFL owners at Super Bowl Week, which
is I can't imagine a worst job in his Like you,
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I'd rather host, and I'd liked rather host for like
an execution than roast owners of an NFL team. But
like when you got to do that, Like, was that surreal?
Was there any Like? It's such a unique environment when
you cross I've found this like when you take comedy
into sports, sometimes it's incredible, and sometimes you realize how
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seriously the sports world takes itself and there's kind of
it's all kind of dictated by the vibe up top.
So I assume Schneider and all the people in Seattle
are really great.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They really set the tone for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They were like the team is also young and loose,
and it was you know, Friday was a day we
considered doing, but they were still in gom as far
as like beat the Packers, and Saturday it was more like,
you know, a light morning walkthrough and then this meeting,
and it was day before and they had most of
the day off the chill, so it was just more conducive.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
To for me to be up there slinging jokes.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I also, you know, energy plays a big part of it,
like the way you get into it. I mean, I
can't imagine roasting the owners in general, but like you know,
I like to really get them to have some idea
of who I am before I start doing that, and
build some rapport before you start.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's just my comfort level with any sort of ROW situation.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I gotta you know, kind of break the room up
first before I just get up there and have it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
There'd be a separation, you know, just break the fourth wall.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Really, but they were all good sports man and yeah,
I don't know, man, it was I was nervous as
hell because they're my team.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The Steelers one I wasn't really nervous for because I
was like, yeah, they don't like me.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Who gives a But I wanted so badly for these
guys to, you know, not to like end up best
friends with them.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But like you can say, you want the like it's
a weird I like you when you get in it's
something weird no matter what you've done. When you're near
one of your favorite teams from when you're a kid,
you just don't want to look like a doufist man.
You don't want you want to have them at least
be like what's up man? When they see you next time.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's uh, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's a weird amount of like self pressure totally.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And you know, Schneider did a good job set me up,
and also he he was so pumped forward that it
didn't really make me feel nervous about what was happening.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's definitely one of those things where you go you
have to just like prepare, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I was.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
When I can tell that I'm nervous for something, it's
because I'm not as prepared as I should be or
want to be. So I definitely lost sleep for a
few nights, staying up, just reorganizing jokes, rewriting stuff, you know,
memorizing a lot more than I had planned on, because
I didn't want to just be reading from a paper
and even just the way into it, I thought about,
you know, doing it as doctor Phill this time, but
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that might be a next time thing, but or even
like an old coach, you know, doing some character.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But it was cool just to do it as my
as myself.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And you know, that's there is such a tough thing
with you see it on the SP's all the time
when they cut to athletes. You know, athletes are still people.
They have a sense of humor like everybody, but you're right,
there is a level of seriousness that they just they're
in such like you know, go mode and kill mode
all the time that like you have to catch them
in these moments when they do have their guard down
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a little bit to be able to laugh at not
only life but themselves. And uh and some guys just can't.
But like again, it's always the same thing. Why I
never try to point my finger at a crowd and
be like it's you know, it's it's what a crowd.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's like dude, they're there, you know, so they want
to laugh.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And even in a situation like that, even though they're
not coming out to it's like, you know, the meeting
was the meeting, and I was a surprise.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They didn't know that I was going to be there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But you got to just you know, be prepped, trust
yourself and just you know, throw hail Mary's on first
down because like you uh, there's it's it's go bigger,
go home with that stuff because you'd rather, like you know,
have them not like what you think is funny, yeah,
but like not go all the way. And then and
then they be like, dude, this guy didn't even go
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for it. Like more often than not, I realized in
these situations they want you to do that and they're
bummed if you didn't because they're like, oh, I thought.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I thought we were getting the real guy here.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean even when the when.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Hugson and and Uh and Donald and a handful of
your guys's Lineman's and Johnny Muttin and everybody came out
to h my shows at act me like, you know,
I was hitting the bikes for a little bit too,
and making fun of Donald and.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And and they were all loved it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And it was like, yeah, I wasn't gonna not like
I wasn't gonna give them a shout out that they
were there and you know, put them on blast, but like,
just let them know that I knew that, you know
that I was pumped that they were there.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You know, yeah, I think you know, you said something
really interesting. I think the difference between the celebrity that
is an athlete and the celebrity that is an actor,
you know, a community, these other things, like it's such
a definable good versus bad where like you're in a movie,
right and or somebody comes to see Doctor Phil live.
There's no points, there's no like somebody can have an
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opinion one way or another, but you can't definitively say
somebody sucks or is amazing. And sports is so defined
by a win and a loss and a score. Yeah,
but it's probably a lot harder to not take stuff
about you seriously when you can't argue back, like you
just don't like my art, bro.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, that's that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, I know, we we definitely, we definitely have a
I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
An easier you know, once you can swallow that it's
all subjective pill it's a healthier way to live.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But you're right, like sports, it's just like stats.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Like wins, money kind of dictates, it dictates how how
successful you are. Right everybody reacts now every yeah and
what job you get and what job you don't get?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And I mean, let me ask.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You this, uh Sam, when I was in UH Minnesota
in September, and you know, he was maybe two games
that you guys were maybe three and oh or or
four to oh, and you were definitely rolling.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And but it was so early that he was like,
you know, look.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I you know, we we we we love it here
and you know, we we don't know. Everyone's telling me
to brave for the winner, and we don't know what
we're getting ourselves into.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
But but he's like, you know, it's great, We're clicking.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Jefferson's one of the best, you know, guys I've ever
played with, and kept saying how he got his PhD
in football at San fran and just really, you know,
grew up and matured and learned that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Like because I.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Was like, I keep hearing this on uh in the media,
but like when you hear from a source and he's like, well, dude,
I just like got to a place was like, oh,
I don't have to like force things, and like it's
okay to like eat the ball or throw it away
and like get it on the next one. He's like,
but everybody, you feel so much pressure to like make
something happen on every play. And he's like, once I
kind of like subscribe to that. It's kind of calmed
him down. And and and you know, obviously like faith
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and trust to be able to sit in the pocket
like that goes a long way. But he was like, uh, yeah,
we'll see. He's like, I gotta keep balling out and
they got to want to like keep me. So I
can't imagine the conversation over there is anything but how
much and how long? Because like and you know, it's
not like you have to get rid of McCarthy, but
unless you want to trade him to my Seahawks, but
like you definitely like I can't. If you guys didn't
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resign Sam, I would I would. I think I would
think the fan base would be like, what the are
we doing?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
What's the move here?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's really interesting because I mean he has an outrageous
universal like approval rating here and as he should, and
it's been so so fun to watch him play. I remember,
you know you're talking September. I remember being at camp
this summer, and this is before it's open to the public,
before it's open to really media. They're just going through stuff.
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And you know, I've been lucky enough to be there
a lot, and this is this is no slight on
anybody or even any commentary on anything. His presence was
one of, Oh, this is just a dude. This is
just a dude who, like I'm I mean, unassuming in
the best way, right confident, but just like you could
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he'd walk he could walk by you in a hallway
with a couple of players and it wouldn't like switch
the room, you know what I'm saying. He was just there.
You could you could tell he came in really excited
off of San Francisco to be in a situation with
koc Here. It's almost amazing to think it's the same
a similar offense as the last couple of years, because
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when you see this dude's arm and the way like
when he's really feeling it, like I don't know how
many guys make that throw, and so to have it
be that, dude, compared to the Chase, you know, the
feeling ghost guy from New York, it's as somebody who
loves a comeback and like a vindication story. Dude, it's
so cool. I can't imagine there's a guy in the NFL.
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And I'm biased, but that that has a better root
for him factor.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, dude, yeah he. I mean he also just is doubted.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I mean I tried to get him to go to
the show on that Friday night before you guys were
in Green Bay and and and he was like, dude,
I gotta be asleep by nine because we got this
in the morning. And I was just like, dude, get
after it, man. I mean, he just was like, I'm down.
He was showing us plays and he read a few
and they made no sense. I mean, he read one
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play that he would read in the huddle and it
was like, you know, you know QX five, you know
q it on, you know Panera times five, you know
you know Baron Trump, you know bar Mitzvah sidekick Break.
And I was like, dude, there's no way I could
remember any of that. And he said it's so articulately
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and casually and I was like, man, this like, but
I guess it's like, you know, it's a comedy. Like
he's probably like, how do you memorize your jokes? How
do you write an act, how do you whatever? But
and I said this the other day. I did these
two shows in San Jose at the Improv and I'd
found this picture of when I first headlined there when
I was two years in in two thousand and nine,
and you know, barely sold any tickets, and now went
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back fifteen years later and sold out two shows on
a Wednesdays, you know, a thousand peeps. And it was
cool to kind of have that contrast. And and I
just kind of put in the caps. I was like, dude,
it happens. When it happens, just don't stop. And a
buddy hit me up and was like, dude, this is
my new favorite quote. And I was like, yeah, I
didn't want to get too sentimental or douchey with the post,
but I didn't want to comment.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I'm like, you know, it's on that kind of a
look back.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And Sam is a great example of that, where it's like, dude,
the system that he was in the last few years
in different spots were just like there's so many factors,
especially in sports too, that need to like line up
for you to be successful, and like you can control
what you can control, but there's just so many other
outlying variables and it's just awesome that you guys have
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so many, you know, every positions covered.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Your fan base is wild.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You're like foaming at the mouth, you know, for for
something great, just so you can forget about Blair Walsh
and like you just like eat something. Yeah, I mean
that you want to talk about Seahawks Viking matchup.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I was in Saint Louis at a bar.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And h and when and I was like, oh, dude,
well this you know, this isn't our year man, Like
you know, I think that was twenty fifteen, right, So
after our Super Bowl loss, we were going back and
I was like we were a wild card and then
uh Man and then we signed him the next year,
which is like going to a strip club and the
stripper gives you ganarrhea and herpies and you go back
the next night and you're like, I think I'm in
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love with you.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
It's like, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, dude, the Seahawks are are looking good. We need
this w Sunday. I didn't realize how much I was
into football until most fans looked at this year as like,
all right, we're hitting the reset button.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
We already rebuild mode, and just like Pete Carroll's.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Done every year, we just find a way to stay
competitive and stay active and be like, you know, a disruptor,
and winning four in a row is huge. Losing last
week sucked, clearly, but this is the rebound game and
I do not want it to come down to ram
Seahawks in LA because McVeigh scares me. I think he's on.
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I think he likes you four locos in the shower
before he goes out. He definitely looks like a kid
that like cheated at at at Twister. He definitely was
a kid that held the gun up to the TV
when he played duck Hunt and then bragged about how many.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Bathes he got. He also looks like he charges you
money to eat candy at his house.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
He also looks like he like I don't know, he
looks like a strip club DJ and grand theft auto.
He just he's got a I don't know, like his beard.
I don't like his bulgy eyes. He's he looks like
a karate dojo that brags about setting the record for
most boards broken in a grocery.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Store parking lot.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
He just everything about Sean McVay sucks, and I hope
the Rams fall apart. Now that being said, I do
root for your Vikings, not only because Darnold's a homeboy
mine homeboy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's the first time I've said that.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
No, I think that really that really worked.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I want want to say home meet or that's my boy,
and I said homeboy.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Homeboy actually probably would have worked better than both those.
I actually felt like it landed, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's all, it's all. It's you know, you got to
say stuff like you mean. It gotta have conviction. You
act like you've been there before. You know, like, I'm
sure the first time you went to a Vikes game,
you know, you weren't as comfy as you are now, right,
people weren't as familiar with you.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You're walking in, They're like, dude, Dahmer has a brother, Right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
There's zero percent they still don't want me in there.
I'm convinced.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
What is have you?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
What's your I guess favorite Viking experience? That again, you
have a flashback to each time.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I've told this on this show before, but I've never
told it to you. So they we got to I
was on the sidelines for a game, and I didn't
grow up going to games man. We grew up rural.
We didn't travel to the cities, we didn't go to anything.
So this is I'm like, gee, golly, pa, like big
old wow. So and it's the Brett Favre and uh,
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he's like backing up as he's doing warm ups. And
we were with somebody who was important in the organization
and a family member who knew that somebody whatever, whatever, whatever,
and we got introduced to Farv and I just sure,
I just said the word gun slinger to him, and
that's it. The only thing I said to him. Should
have been banned from the Twin Cities at that point. Hey,
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there's a there's a straggly sociopath saying the word gun
slinger to our most important player. You want to get him,
you want to put him in Wisconsin for a month.
So yeah, that's probably my roughest moment.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You can't Bret Farv. The guy is rock solid.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I think he's you know, he's done more, you know,
for he's done more for the game of football and uh, yeah, dude,
what a gun?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Gunslinger was the right term?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Doing it was the right term. It just didn't land well.
It was the right term. I just didn't where you
just said homeboy, You're like, this is a word I use.
I said it like somebody whispered it in my ear
and told me it was the right thing to say
to him.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Let's go. You know, I met your, I met your
is a PA announcer.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I believe in Paul Allen.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Is that his name?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Voice of Voice of God yep.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And coolest voice in the league yep.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah dude, he Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I was doing this podcast with Mark Sanchez, uh, Fox
analyst former Jets, Eagles Brogos QB.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Mark and I both went to ask see like Sam
and uh.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
We interviewed Sam on the podcast That's how I became
homeboys with him years ago, and Mark and I went
to do the show.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
At the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
We had on Jason Kelce pre uh late night talk
show and fandom and and just you know, Miles Teller
before Top Gun and just we're hitting everybody. It was
gonna be a great thing. And then Showtime Sports eventually
was like you know, we don't want any comedy.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
We just want the x's and nose, which just sucked
the fun out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's something that aged poorly as a decision. By the way,
bro we we we did.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
We would make bets every week and one of them
I got to get had to get my chest waxed
in Orlando at the Pro Bowl, and it was just
it was just fun, man and Marks such a silly
uh goof but like just with an amazing football IQ
and so and so we were down in Orlando and
I met Paul at a bar and he made a
video for me for Nick Swartzon, who's a Minnesota boy
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and he likes and uh dude, he just I remember
being so in awe because I'm gonna be a baseball
broadcast when I was a kid, and and so just
to hear people with like voices like that. And then
he did a bunch of like calls and stuff and
and and I should hit them up because you know,
this was I don't know if this was twenty six seventeen,
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maybe twenty eighteen, and so like, definitely, you guys have
been competitive forever, but that was definitely the Cousins era.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But as it was starting, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mean, is there a is there something with the fans
where you know, I always ask people this when you
get close and don't make it, would.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You rather that? Or like not even have that?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Because like for the Niners, it's like, dude, they've lost
what three out of the last six Super Bowls or whatever,
and it's like, would you rather get there.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And have that happen or not even get there?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And as a fan, like for the Seahawks, we've gone
I think we went ten years in a row to
the playoffs with Russ after the Super Bowls and it
was awesome because every Sunday mattered, And that's all I
asked for as a fan, is like to be in
a place to where like you can watch the games
and actually get a little emotionally invested, which is tricky
for fans. I remember and the Seahawks won the first
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Super Bowl in twenty thirteen, and I went with my
boy Brad Williams, who's a dire Broncos fan.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He's also a Dwarf, and.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Were sitting there and it was like fifteen nothing and
then Percy Harvin ran back to kick off to start
the second half. Brad looks down I take a picture
he was about to cry, and he goes, you might
not want to post that. If a Dwarf cries at
the super Bowl and it's public, it's seven years bad luck.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And I was like, so.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Funny, And I forgot how emotionally invested you get into
your team as a fan to where I was like
accepting partial responsibility.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
People were like, dude, congrats in the super Bowl, congrats.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I had no problem accepting partial like response, I was like, dude,
thank you. In those fifteen beers, I had a half
I think gave Marshawn the extra boost he needed. But
you guys probably have that same delusion where you're like,
we are a reason the team stays consistent.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
But I also think that there's a lot of truth
to that. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
To go back to your original question, which would I
rather have? I think I'd rather be close because I'm
like you, I like to be invested in something you know,
because otherwise you get apathetic. But I also think the
secondary answer to that, which is something that you have,
it's something that I have. It's not something that you know.
It's something I lost. We didn't have with the North Stars,
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and you didn't have with the Sonics. Is ownership that
cares about the community and winning. Yeah right, that's all
that sports is. And so I think more than getting close,
I think having like an ownership group that actually is
invested in winning a title and building in the community
in a way. Because you hear that with the Seahawks,
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people like to go be a part of that organization.
They really like the way people talk about the Vikings organization.
That to me is the big deal and the thing
that allows you to reinvest because you're like, well, at
some point, at some point, it has to work out.
Now you here's my question back to you, because you
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won that Super Bowl and then all of a sudden,
it's like you guys entered into this almost new era.
We're like, well, they're kind of just one of the
franchises that they might have to rebuild, but they'll be back.
You're just expected to be there. I mean, where were
you at before that in that same regard, because it
was just years of misery with one hassleback miss like
you were us with less of a long history before
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that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, I think you you know, when you don't have
a winning history. That super Bowl in twenty five against
the Steelers. That was clearly rigged for Jerome Bettis to
walk off into the sunset. And even my Steeler fans
know that and will admit it slightly, But I mean
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that was nobody cared about the Seahawks. We were small
markets still our small market team, but it's the one
sport where we have made more of a.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Splash in the zeitgeist, but at least for the Northwest.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But yeah, it was a weird time because you're such
a you're such a die hard fan, but you're also
so aware of like, we're just not there.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We have a lot of holes on the team.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And and then we get home Grin and Hasselback was
actually a gangster, and then sewn Sander wins MVP and
then gets on the Madden cover and then gets the
Madden curse, and then you know we had some you know,
great receivers and and then you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Know it just it.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Getting Marshawn was like a big deal. I don't think
it was like a huge signing, but it was a big.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's like a back to the future timeline shift getting him.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, totally, And honestly that happened under the Pete John regime.
Which you know, I went to USC one to five
for acting school, and Pete was our coach at that time.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
There was a thirty for thirty called Trojan War.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Which is basically about that time at USC, which is
just insane.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And and so.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I felt like Pete was like almost like a secondary father,
and because my left when I was young.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Thanks for bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I really felt like attached because he was with us
for seventeen fourteen and Seattle and then you know what
three or four in SC and it was just a
really unique thing to be attached to somebody like that
sports wise, where you have so much emotional attachment and investment.
And I was so pumped when he got there and
so bumped when he left. But he really, like, man,
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it was so fun. I would I would listen to
I never listened to postgame conferences, but I'd watch Pete.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
All the time because he had this really.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Powerful, commanding, calm way of talking and so smart, and
so he loved it so much and loved the guys,
and you know, ultimately it got to a point to
where I just don't think, you know, his what he
was doing was was resonating anymore, is what it sounded
like and people maybe weren't fighting to play for him
the way that they were when he first got there.
But man, did he I mean, you know, Schneider talks
(27:48):
about all the time. He's like he was just a
he changed the way that you know, everybody was looking
at the game and the whole culture and the practices
were on fire, and like people were you know getting
you know, just getting that defense, you know, grabbing a
lot of guys that had chips on their shoulders and
were you know, overlooked by so many teams, and then
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just creating an environment where people could truly be themselves.
And I think Pete really shined like that, and almost
the same way Billy Bean with baseball and the whole
moneyball stuff kind of trickled down to other.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Teams participating in that outlook.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Pete was a real goat with that. But Seattle people
are now so you live and die. We also are
just you know, craving a super Bowl that will wash
away twenty fourteen, and that will that Every year that
goes by, we get a little bit more removed from
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it emotionally and physically.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But wow, dude, I'll.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Never I'll never forget where I was when that happened,
or where I was when I was my coach. I
was a fact kid play basketball going to my coach
called me Krispy Kreme out George Jabar And I'll never
forget that either.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Two moments. Yeah, Pete Carroll, he's a Vikings alumni. We
love him here in Minnesota. And I think people you said,
you know, like his message wore out. I think it's
like kind of one of those things, like great bands,
you like, unless you are literally the band right or
the Rolling Stones or one of these things, is somehow
escape that thing that puts a cap on your time period.
(29:32):
Like I think it's almost weird if you make it
that long and you're relating to like how many coaches
in the history of the NFL can say they captured
a period of time with a generation of players and
did like because you guys didn't just win a Super Bowl.
And I think the travesty in that loss is that
had you And this is how I feel about the
(29:52):
ninety eight Vikings, Like, had they ninety eight Vikings one,
we're sitting here talking about them as one of probably
the greatest teams of the last fiffty years. Had you
guys won that second Super Bowl, the term legion of
boom would be sitting right next to eighty five bears.
And not that it's not really highly regarded, but it's
just histories, narratives are defined by these little twists and turns,
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and so to have presided over that in a way
where he changed the culture built it. He and Schneider
all that. That's like, good lord, you did that. Of course,
I mean at some point you don't relate. That's kind
of that's I think it's almost unrealistic to do anything
other if you were that successful. It's like Phil Jackson
GMing in New York, like, of course you're gonna suck
at that.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Dude, right right, Yeah, it's it's a pretty rare thing,
I think, to be as successful in a sport in
one spot like he was.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
And you know, true Testament a testament or testament A
true Testament?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Let's go, first Testament?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Why do I say? Why do I say a Testament?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
The New Testament? The Old Testament?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
But I sometimes they'll say it when I go, I
don't think I've said that for like fifteen years, so
my mouth doesn't even know what to do.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
What's your favorite not to get all James lifted on you,
But what's your favorite word?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, first of all, I think that is just a
testament to you, homeboy, and I think mine is juxtaposition.
I use that as though I know what it means,
and I use it all what it means. No, it'll
be in my divorce papers. She'd be like his. His
use of juxtaposition pushed me to this place.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Oh my god, that's so funny. I'm a big I
like behoove.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh, behoove it behooves you love, behoof.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Love A good behoove. Yeah, behooves you.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, Like it would behoove to use an a sentence
spelling be style, it would behoove. The Minnesota Vikings front
office to resign Sammy Darnold to a ten year, four
hundred mil contract.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I'm gonna I want to ask you how this game goes.
But the last thing I wanted to say on that
is I love. I mean, for somebody who didn't see it,
give everybody your socials really quick. What's your Instagram?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, at Adam Ray Comedy on Instagram, TikTok Twitter all that.
My website is Adam Ray Coomedy dot com where we
can find all my stand up dates, all the Doctor
Phil Live dates, which we have twenty cities in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
We are hitting Minnesota March second at the Orpheum.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That shows booked up and it's gonna be fire and
of course the Doctor Phil Live Netflix special Doctor Phil Unleashed.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Check that out on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Also check out the Roast of twenty twenty four with Me,
Jeff Ross, Sam marril Mark Norman, miss Pat, Tim Dillon,
and Hanner Berner.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
That drops December twenty seventh.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I'm plagers Joe Joe Biden on that I'm doing Joe Bideney,
Andy Imer f Hey, remember was he one of the
original Vikings. I knew those guys. I know those guy
was best friends with the guy from the State Farm,
Crise the Capitol one of this, Serena Willia whoop the
gold Birds and we're going up downs left right selects
start Biden twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Come on, we're gonna make groceres cheaper.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So that comes out of December twenty seventh. It's like
a recap of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Basically.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
The other reason people need to go to your Instagram
is cause your homeboy Sam Darnold literally is wearing an
Adam Ray as Doctor Phil hooded sweatshirt on his way
to the Monday night whiteout game against Chicago Bears. I know,
like you get to this point where your career grows,
you get to do these cool things Steelers, it's still
(33:17):
gotta be a weird moment, like because they just become
your friends and stuff. You're like, hey, the starting NFL quarterback,
who's you know, weren't it not for Josh Allen is
probably the in the MVP conversation right now just has
my silly comedy hooded sweatshirt on that hat. That's such
a cool thing when you think about who you were
as a kid and where you are now.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Totally.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, I mean I am such a sports fan and
such a you know, it is cool to be you know,
to meet people that you look up to, and yeah,
you're right, I don't even.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I know how you know, well revered Sam.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Is but yeah, he's he's just a busted guy, so
I don't, you know, it's like I joke with him
the way I joke with guys have known for twenty
years and and but but I.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Definitely, yeah, it's it's cool. But it's also he's a
big comedy fan, so it's like, you know, it's he.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Had been following me for a little bit when we
first met, and so for him too, he takes ownership
and seeing me kind of you know, have a cool
last couple of years and just you know, have things
kind of elevate in a more fun direction. And uh
and yeah and so and I'm you know, almost like
a supportive mom the way I messaged him sometimes.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
After certain things that he does. And yeah, that was
a sweet shout out and he was looking like a snack,
so that didn't hurt.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
You know, got to show the people of Minnesota that,
you know, Aaron Rodgers isn't the only you know, guy
out there that's that you know, looks like you could
be Brad Pitt's cousin. But yeah, it's it's awesome man,
and the doctor Phil Merch is so fun and people
really eat it fun. Trying to get Sammy to to
(34:55):
stick around hopefully and pop by that Orpheum show. But
he might be back in the OC at point. But
but who knows, if you guys take care of business,
he might just you know, he might.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Just they might just have to pave cement over him
and turn him into a statue.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
That's what I'm saying, Dude, put the statue down now
and let him know how much you care. Like that,
there's something to be said about the statue before you retire,
right while you're playing. It really speaks volumes as far
as how much you are committed to this guy long term.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
If this team ever wins, because you guys have the
statue of Lynch with the diving into the end zone backwards, right,
isn't that the statue is there somewhere in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
That I don't think we have. I don't think I've
seen any statues.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
We've got a Griffy and Egar Martinez statue outside of
T Mobile Park.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
If the Vikings ever win a Super Bowl, and if
there's any sort of defining moment in that Super Bowl run,
the amount of like, I think there'll be a city
council moving like we're gonna do a lot of statues.
We're just gonna, you know, it'll look like when they
dig up like those terra Cotta warriors and an ancient civilization.
That's what Minneapolis will look like when somebody finds our
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city fifty thousand years from now. Yeah, yeah, just a
bunch of Sam Darnold's just with their you know, just
with their their helmet in their hand all over the place.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It's also cool that, you know, Sam obviously you know,
looks like he's not old enough to be in the uh,
you know stadium without his parents, so that.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I think growing the beard was a sweet move on
his part.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Everyone moved made him look like he's on Yellowstone or
or place to poker with, you know, with uh some
you know, shady guys from you know, like like like
he's friand like when you have a beard like that
and you still got like, you know, you know, a young,
affable vibe to you. It's definitely like he reminds me
of some of those kids that used to hang outside
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like the AMPM in high school. But Sam's got this
clean cut, you know, California vibe too that I think
everyone's vibing with. And there is a laid back style
to him as a person that definitely I see translating
on the field.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Absolutely, he's in go mode. You guys are are lucky.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Well give me, I hate to do this to you,
but give me a prediction for the weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
So I'm captain positive.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I'm super optimistic about this weekend, even though I know,
you know are the pressures.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I think more on us. You guys are rolling. Confidence
is high. You know.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Sam got me sideline passes the last time he was
in lumen Field at Seattle when he was with the
Panthers and they came in and took care of business
and then circle two years ago.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I brought my eight year old nephew at the time,
who've never been to.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
A Hawks game. Football is his favorite sport. He is
a little psycho. He doesn't have all the updates on
his hard drive. His favorite move now is to smack
me when I go home and go like and subscribe
and then run out of the room. Well, he giggles
to himself, and I asked my front of my stepdad.
He is just like a little noodnick as my mom says,
full of spitting vinegar. And I take him to his
first Seahawks game. He's so pumped. We get a hotel
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down to the stadium. He's like, this is the greatest
hotel I've ever stayed in my entire life. I'm like, yeah,
I mean it's you know, it's a looking to their
you know, they they have them everywhere. There's there's blood
on your pillow, by the way, And so he's like,
I went the bed closest to the window and he's
so pumped to go, oh to get a view of
the city. He's like, no, because if somebody breaks in
to kill us, they'll get you first. It's like all right,
and you know, and and then we go to the
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game and we're on the sidelines. Sam comes over and says,
what up all this? And then rips the game. It
just takes takes us, you know, into h l territory.
And at one point my nephew runs away to try
to catch a punt. There were practice punts going on
in these and it helped mine and it bounces off
his little hands and I was like, dude, you can't
break away from me like that. He's like, it was
going to hit a girl that was standing on the sidelines.
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I was like, dude, you're spitting game and trying to
grab a souvenir. Like we we go back to the
gift shop. He went a little blitz our mascot stuffed animal.
We're driving back home. I go, dude, this was a
great day. Man, He's like, it's the greatest day of
my whole life.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I'm glad him. He's like, dude, I mean I never
get to hang with you enough.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
I hang with your sisters, your twin sisters more because
they're older and and you know, usually don't smack me
in as much. And they're just you know, a little,
a little just cleaner as far as the give and take.
And he goes, yeah, and thanks for getting me blitzed
the stuff the animal. I go, sure, I go, I
guess what, every time you look at it, you can
remind yourself of how great today was.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
And then he goes, yeah, maybe I'll give it to
my kids someday. And I was like, dude, so sweet.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
And then a beat goes by it and he goes,
or I'll just die with him in my hands, and
I was like, ess, so your dad is a rapper,
so this makes sense.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
His dad. My brother in law's name is Dirte, which
is you know, yeah, you're that's.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Definitely when your sister comes over and is like, my god,
you guys, I'm I met someone special. The next one'
out of your mouth usually are I hope it's a
semi locally famous rapper named Dirte, and I hope he
talks about opening for DMX once all the time. He
is a great guy, a huge Hawks fan as well.
Dirte's prediction would be Seahawks twenty six, Vikings twenty one.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I am going to go. It's gonna be a defensive battle.
I'm gonna go Seahawks. Man. Sammy is just on fire too, man,
he's he is, like you said, gun slinging. I'm gonna go. See.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I think we're gonna put up more points than you
guys anticipate. I think Gino's gonna come back with a vengeance.
I'm going Seahawks thirty, Vikings twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
You're the king, dude. This means a lot. Thank you
for doing the show anytime. Baby.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Good to see us, Sach.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
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Rocket Rocket I here, Ladies and gentlemen, we are joined
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by the great Adam Ray. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Man, happy to be here. First time caller, longtime listener.
Your beer looks great. Just does the carpet match the drapes?
That's what everybody wants to know.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
It's very I'm oscillating between guy in a cult and
guy you wouldn't want to be your wife's yoga teacher.
That's where that's I have entered into the era where
I am wearing one of these women's headbands like a
European soccer player. And it's not You would not like
the version of me that exists right now. Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well I'll tell you, I'll tell you who who would
love that? The what's your mascot's name?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The Viking?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'm gonna get fired from my show, Victor, Victor, the Victor,
the Viking. Yeah, I knew he.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Was a Viking.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
That would be this would be the end of the podcast,
was like, what's the who's your what's the mascot for you?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
But you know It's like, there's you know, the Clippers have,
Like what Paulie the Parrot or Peter the Plan.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's something that has nothing to do with clipping.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, they should move to Seattle anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But but there's uh who's the Raiders have? What's what's
his deal? Is it just uh Bo Jackson's Bow and
arrow store?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
What's the only one I remember is the Chargers mascot,
which is Bolt, who's a lightning bolt that when you
take his glasses off, looks like he's been huffing dried
up red bull.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Like it's who has done that?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah? He's a wild He's a wild looking dude. Man,
I'm you joined the show. I know I'm a I'm
a die hard Vikings fan, but I'm also a huge
NBA guy and I see the Sonics hat on you,
and it's hard. I'm going to come back to that
because I will derail an entire football show talking about
Sean Campen, the tragedy that your city doesn't have a team.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah, let's talk about my parents' divorce first.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You want to really just build up to the extreme
sadness that has filled the late two thousands.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Of my life.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, I mean, I'm a Diard Seattle sports fan, you know,
speaking of football, and just you know, I know that's
what we're here to discuss. But in the matchup between
my Hawks and your Vikes on Sunday, which is a
way bigger game for us.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Than it is for you guys, I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I mean, I know you guys are trying to secure
home field, but you know we are trying to not
blow the division and and not slipping as a wild
card again, which doesn't we just that's not our route.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I guess it was our route the first Super Bowl year.
Oh wait, no, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
We had home field advantage there, so you you always
want to the fans are the twelves as we call
him are are definitely a factor. But I was just
up in Seattle last week for the Green Bay game.
You know, John Schneider, our GM is a good buddy
of mine, and he saw a video of me roasting
the Steelers last August. They had hit me up because
(04:18):
I was doing shows at the Improv out there, and
they're like, do you want to come in a day early?
We have our rookie talent show and we'd love you
to host it. So I got all these roast jokes.
I thought that was just me be the rookies. It's
the whole squad. Tomlin's in there, Russ and Fields are
front row. I had one Russ joke and Russ laughed,
and I was like.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Russ laughed, We're fine. And every time I do a
joke that people grown dad, I'd be like, Russ liked it.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I don't know what to tell you guys. But so
then Schneider was like, you got to do that for
the Hawks. So I went up there and did it
Saturday morning, which is a great time for comedy, like
eight forty five, after their quick morning meeting.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
And it was awesome though.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Man, I had had a great moment with DK, and
it was my first time meeting Mike McDonald and he's
just a stud and and and had been following me
for a bit, so he's a comedy guy. And I
go DKs here, everyone goes, oh, go to his birthday, K,
what do you want for your birthday?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
He goes, No more jokes out of your.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Ass, and everybody's like oh, and I go, well, strap up, bitch.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I got twenty logged.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And loaded and then we just kind of went down
the line on most of the players, but they were
all like great sports about it. I'm probably gonna post
some clips to that and the next week or so,
depending on if we win Sunday and can ride some momentum.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
But yeah, dude, diehard.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Hot is that? Like? So we had Al Madrigal was
on earlier this year, and you know, he's like lifelong Niners,
and so he did something similar for the Niners and
they liked it so much that they had him come
and roast. This is the craziest thing I've ever heard.
Al roasted the NFL owners at Super Bowl Week, which
is I can't imagine a worst job in his Like you,
(05:48):
I'd rather host, and I'd liked rather host for like
an execution than roast owners of an NFL team. But
like when you got to do that, Like, was that surreal?
Was there any Like? It's such a unique environment when
you cross I've found this like when you take comedy
into sports, sometimes it's incredible, and sometimes you realize how
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seriously the sports world takes itself and there's kind of
it's all kind of dictated by the vibe up top.
So I assume Schneider and all the people in Seattle
are really great.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
They really set the tone for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
They were like the team is also young and loose,
and it was you know, Friday was a day we
considered doing, but they were still in gom as far
as like beat the Packers, and Saturday it was more like,
you know, a light morning walkthrough and then this meeting,
and it was day before and they had most of
the day off the chill, so it was just more conducive.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
To for me to be up there slinging jokes.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I also, you know, energy plays a big part of it,
like the way you get into it. I mean, I
can't imagine roasting the owners in general, but like you know,
I like to really get them to have some idea
of who I am before I start doing that, and
build some rapport before you start.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's just my comfort level with any sort of ROW situation.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
I gotta you know, kind of break the room up
first before I just get up there and have it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
There'd be a separation, you know, just break the fourth wall.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Really, but they were all good sports man and yeah,
I don't know, man, it was I was nervous as
hell because they're my team.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
The Steelers one I wasn't really nervous for because I
was like, yeah, they don't like me.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Who gives a But I wanted so badly for these
guys to, you know, not to like end up best
friends with them.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
But like you can say, you want the like it's
a weird I like you when you get in it's
something weird no matter what you've done. When you're near
one of your favorite teams from when you're a kid,
you just don't want to look like a doufist man.
You don't want you want to have them at least
be like what's up man? When they see you next time.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
It's uh, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
It's a weird amount of like self pressure totally.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
And you know, Schneider did a good job set me up,
and also he he was so pumped forward that it
didn't really make me feel nervous about what was happening.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It's definitely one of those things where you go you
have to just like prepare, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
I was.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
When I can tell that I'm nervous for something, it's
because I'm not as prepared as I should be or
want to be. So I definitely lost sleep for a
few nights, staying up, just reorganizing jokes, rewriting stuff, you know,
memorizing a lot more than I had planned on, because
I didn't want to just be reading from a paper
and even just the way into it, I thought about,
you know, doing it as doctor Phill this time, but
(08:28):
that might be a next time thing, but or even
like an old coach, you know, doing some character.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But it was cool just to do it as my
as myself.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And you know, that's there is such a tough thing
with you see it on the SP's all the time
when they cut to athletes. You know, athletes are still people.
They have a sense of humor like everybody, but you're right,
there is a level of seriousness that they just they're
in such like you know, go mode and kill mode
all the time that like you have to catch them
in these moments when they do have their guard down
(08:58):
a little bit to be able to laugh at not
only life but themselves. And uh and some guys just can't.
But like again, it's always the same thing. Why I
never try to point my finger at a crowd and
be like it's you know, it's it's what a crowd.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It's like dude, they're there, you know, so they want
to laugh.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And even in a situation like that, even though they're
not coming out to it's like, you know, the meeting
was the meeting, and I was a surprise.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
They didn't know that I was going to be there.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
But you got to just you know, be prepped, trust
yourself and just you know, throw hail Mary's on first
down because like you uh, there's it's it's go bigger,
go home with that stuff because you'd rather, like you know,
have them not like what you think is funny, yeah,
but like not go all the way. And then and
then they be like, dude, this guy didn't even go
(09:41):
for it. Like more often than not, I realized in
these situations they want you to do that and they're
bummed if you didn't because they're like, oh, I thought.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
I thought we were getting the real guy here.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean even when the when.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Hugson and and Uh and Donald and a handful of
your guys's Lineman's and Johnny Muttin and everybody came out
to h my shows at act me like, you know,
I was hitting the bikes for a little bit too,
and making fun of Donald and.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And and they were all loved it.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And it was like, yeah, I wasn't gonna not like
I wasn't gonna give them a shout out that they
were there and you know, put them on blast, but like,
just let them know that I knew that, you know
that I was pumped that they were there.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You know, yeah, I think you know, you said something
really interesting. I think the difference between the celebrity that
is an athlete and the celebrity that is an actor,
you know, a community, these other things, like it's such
a definable good versus bad where like you're in a movie,
right and or somebody comes to see Doctor Phil live.
There's no points, there's no like somebody can have an
(10:37):
opinion one way or another, but you can't definitively say
somebody sucks or is amazing. And sports is so defined
by a win and a loss and a score. Yeah,
but it's probably a lot harder to not take stuff
about you seriously when you can't argue back, like you
just don't like my art, bro.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, that's that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah, I know, we we definitely, we definitely have a
I guess.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
An easier you know, once you can swallow that it's
all subjective pill it's a healthier way to live.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But you're right, like sports, it's just like stats.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Like wins, money kind of dictates, it dictates how how
successful you are. Right everybody reacts now every yeah and
what job you get and what job you don't get?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
And I mean, let me ask.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
You this, uh Sam, when I was in UH Minnesota
in September, and you know, he was maybe two games
that you guys were maybe three and oh or or
four to oh, and you were definitely rolling.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
And but it was so early that he was like,
you know, look.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
I you know, we we we we love it here
and you know, we we don't know. Everyone's telling me
to brave for the winner, and we don't know what
we're getting ourselves into.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
But but he's like, you know, it's great, We're clicking.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Jefferson's one of the best, you know, guys I've ever
played with, and kept saying how he got his PhD
in football at San fran and just really, you know,
grew up and matured and learned that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Like because I.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Was like, I keep hearing this on uh in the media,
but like when you hear from a source and he's like, well, dude,
I just like got to a place was like, oh,
I don't have to like force things, and like it's
okay to like eat the ball or throw it away
and like get it on the next one. He's like,
but everybody, you feel so much pressure to like make
something happen on every play. And he's like, once I
kind of like subscribe to that. It's kind of calmed
him down. And and and you know, obviously like faith
(12:24):
and trust to be able to sit in the pocket
like that goes a long way. But he was like, uh, yeah,
we'll see. He's like, I gotta keep balling out and
they got to want to like keep me. So I
can't imagine the conversation over there is anything but how
much and how long? Because like and you know, it's
not like you have to get rid of McCarthy, but
unless you want to trade him to my Seahawks, but
like you definitely like I can't. If you guys didn't
(12:48):
resign Sam, I would I would. I think I would
think the fan base would be like, what the are
we doing?
Speaker 3 (12:53):
What?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
What?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
What's the move here?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
It's really interesting because I mean he has an outrageous
universal like approval rating here and as he should, and
it's been so so fun to watch him play. I remember,
you know you're talking September. I remember being at camp
this summer, and this is before it's open to the public,
before it's open to really media. They're just going through stuff.
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And you know, I've been lucky enough to be there
a lot, and this is this is no slight on
anybody or even any commentary on anything. His presence was
one of, Oh, this is just a dude. This is
just a dude who, like I'm I mean, unassuming in
the best way, right confident, but just like you could
(13:38):
he'd walk he could walk by you in a hallway
with a couple of players and it wouldn't like switch
the room, you know what I'm saying. He was just there.
You could you could tell he came in really excited
off of San Francisco to be in a situation with
koc Here. It's almost amazing to think it's the same
a similar offense as the last couple of years, because
(13:59):
when you see this dude's arm and the way like
when he's really feeling it, like I don't know how
many guys make that throw, and so to have it
be that, dude, compared to the Chase, you know, the
feeling ghost guy from New York, it's as somebody who
loves a comeback and like a vindication story. Dude, it's
so cool. I can't imagine there's a guy in the NFL.
(14:20):
And I'm biased, but that that has a better root
for him factor.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, dude, yeah he. I mean he also just is doubted.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I mean I tried to get him to go to
the show on that Friday night before you guys were
in Green Bay and and and he was like, dude,
I gotta be asleep by nine because we got this
in the morning. And I was just like, dude, get
after it, man. I mean, he just was like, I'm down.
He was showing us plays and he read a few
and they made no sense. I mean, he read one
(14:48):
play that he would read in the huddle and it
was like, you know, you know QX five, you know
q it on, you know Panera times five, you know
you know Baron Trump, you know bar Mitzvah sidekick Break.
And I was like, dude, there's no way I could
remember any of that. And he said it's so articulately
(15:09):
and casually and I was like, man, this like, but
I guess it's like, you know, it's a comedy. Like
he's probably like, how do you memorize your jokes? How
do you write an act, how do you whatever? But
and I said this the other day. I did these
two shows in San Jose at the Improv and I'd
found this picture of when I first headlined there when
I was two years in in two thousand and nine,
and you know, barely sold any tickets, and now went
(15:31):
back fifteen years later and sold out two shows on
a Wednesdays, you know, a thousand peeps. And it was
cool to kind of have that contrast. And and I
just kind of put in the caps. I was like, dude,
it happens. When it happens, just don't stop. And a
buddy hit me up and was like, dude, this is
my new favorite quote. And I was like, yeah, I
didn't want to get too sentimental or douchey with the post,
but I didn't want to comment.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
I'm like, you know, it's on that kind of a
look back.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And Sam is a great example of that, where it's like, dude,
the system that he was in the last few years
in different spots were just like there's so many factors,
especially in sports too, that need to like line up
for you to be successful, and like you can control
what you can control, but there's just so many other
outlying variables and it's just awesome that you guys have
(16:17):
so many, you know, every positions covered.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Your fan base is wild.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You're like foaming at the mouth, you know, for for
something great, just so you can forget about Blair Walsh
and like you just like eat something. Yeah, I mean
that you want to talk about Seahawks Viking matchup.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I was in Saint Louis at a bar.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
And h and when and I was like, oh, dude,
well this you know, this isn't our year man, Like
you know, I think that was twenty fifteen, right, So
after our Super Bowl loss, we were going back and
I was like we were a wild card and then
uh Man and then we signed him the next year,
which is like going to a strip club and the
stripper gives you ganarrhea and herpies and you go back
the next night and you're like, I think I'm in
(16:58):
love with you.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
It's like, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Yeah, dude, the Seahawks are are looking good. We need
this w Sunday. I didn't realize how much I was
into football until most fans looked at this year as like,
all right, we're hitting the reset button.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
We already rebuild mode, and just like Pete Carroll's.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Done every year, we just find a way to stay
competitive and stay active and be like, you know, a disruptor,
and winning four in a row is huge. Losing last
week sucked, clearly, but this is the rebound game and
I do not want it to come down to ram
Seahawks in LA because McVeigh scares me. I think he's on.
(17:42):
I think he likes you four locos in the shower
before he goes out. He definitely looks like a kid
that like cheated at at at Twister. He definitely was
a kid that held the gun up to the TV
when he played duck Hunt and then bragged about how many.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Bathes he got. He also looks like he charges you
money to eat candy at his house.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
He also looks like he like I don't know, he
looks like a strip club DJ and grand theft auto.
He just he's got a I don't know, like his beard.
I don't like his bulgy eyes. He's he looks like
a karate dojo that brags about setting the record for
most boards broken in a grocery.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Store parking lot.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
He just everything about Sean McVay sucks, and I hope
the Rams fall apart. Now that being said, I do
root for your Vikings, not only because Darnold's a homeboy
mine homeboy.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's the first time I've said that.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
No, I think that really that really worked.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I want want to say home meet or that's my boy,
and I said homeboy.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Homeboy actually probably would have worked better than both those.
I actually felt like it landed, all right.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's all, it's all. It's you know, you got to
say stuff like you mean. It gotta have conviction. You
act like you've been there before. You know, like, I'm
sure the first time you went to a Vikes game,
you know, you weren't as comfy as you are now, right,
people weren't as familiar with you.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
You're walking in, They're like, dude, Dahmer has a brother, Right.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
There's zero percent they still don't want me in there.
I'm convinced.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
What is have you?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
What's your I guess favorite Viking experience? That again, you
have a flashback to each time.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
I've told this on this show before, but I've never
told it to you. So they we got to I
was on the sidelines for a game, and I didn't
grow up going to games man. We grew up rural.
We didn't travel to the cities, we didn't go to anything.
So this is I'm like, gee, golly, pa, like big
old wow. So and it's the Brett Favre and uh,
(19:26):
he's like backing up as he's doing warm ups. And
we were with somebody who was important in the organization
and a family member who knew that somebody whatever, whatever, whatever,
and we got introduced to Farv and I just sure,
I just said the word gun slinger to him, and
that's it. The only thing I said to him. Should
have been banned from the Twin Cities at that point. Hey,
(19:47):
there's a there's a straggly sociopath saying the word gun
slinger to our most important player. You want to get him,
you want to put him in Wisconsin for a month.
So yeah, that's probably my roughest moment.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
You can't Bret Farv. The guy is rock solid.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I think he's you know, he's done more, you know,
for he's done more for the game of football and uh, yeah, dude,
what a gun?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Gunslinger was the right term?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Doing it was the right term. It just didn't land well.
It was the right term. I just didn't where you
just said homeboy, You're like, this is a word I use.
I said it like somebody whispered it in my ear
and told me it was the right thing to say
to him.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Let's go. You know, I met your, I met your
is a PA announcer.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I believe in Paul Allen.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Is that his name?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Voice of Voice of God yep.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
And coolest voice in the league yep.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Yeah dude, he Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
I was doing this podcast with Mark Sanchez, uh, Fox
analyst former Jets, Eagles Brogos QB.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Mark and I both went to ask see like Sam
and uh.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
We interviewed Sam on the podcast That's how I became
homeboys with him years ago, and Mark and I went
to do the show.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
At the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
We had on Jason Kelce pre uh late night talk
show and fandom and and just you know, Miles Teller
before Top Gun and just we're hitting everybody. It was
gonna be a great thing. And then Showtime Sports eventually
was like you know, we don't want any comedy.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
We just want the x's and nose, which just sucked
the fun out of it.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
That's something that aged poorly as a decision. By the way,
bro we we we did.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
We would make bets every week and one of them
I got to get had to get my chest waxed
in Orlando at the Pro Bowl, and it was just
it was just fun, man and Marks such a silly
uh goof but like just with an amazing football IQ
and so and so we were down in Orlando and
I met Paul at a bar and he made a
video for me for Nick Swartzon, who's a Minnesota boy
(21:46):
and he likes and uh dude, he just I remember
being so in awe because I'm gonna be a baseball
broadcast when I was a kid, and and so just
to hear people with like voices like that. And then
he did a bunch of like calls and stuff and
and and I should hit them up because you know,
this was I don't know if this was twenty six seventeen,
(22:07):
maybe twenty eighteen, and so like, definitely, you guys have
been competitive forever, but that was definitely the Cousins era.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But as it was starting, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mean, is there a is there something with the fans
where you know, I always ask people this when you
get close and don't make it, would.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You rather that? Or like not even have that?
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Because like for the Niners, it's like, dude, they've lost
what three out of the last six Super Bowls or whatever,
and it's like, would you rather get there.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
And have that happen or not even get there?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And as a fan, like for the Seahawks, we've gone
I think we went ten years in a row to
the playoffs with Russ after the Super Bowls and it
was awesome because every Sunday mattered, And that's all I
asked for as a fan, is like to be in
a place to where like you can watch the games
and actually get a little emotionally invested, which is tricky
for fans. I remember and the Seahawks won the first
(23:00):
Super Bowl in twenty thirteen, and I went with my
boy Brad Williams, who's a dire Broncos fan.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
He's also a Dwarf, and.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Were sitting there and it was like fifteen nothing and
then Percy Harvin ran back to kick off to start
the second half. Brad looks down I take a picture
he was about to cry, and he goes, you might
not want to post that. If a Dwarf cries at
the super Bowl and it's public, it's seven years bad luck.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
And I was like, so.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Funny, And I forgot how emotionally invested you get into
your team as a fan to where I was like
accepting partial responsibility.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
People were like, dude, congrats in the super Bowl, congrats.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I had no problem accepting partial like response, I was like, dude,
thank you. In those fifteen beers, I had a half
I think gave Marshawn the extra boost he needed. But
you guys probably have that same delusion where you're like,
we are a reason the team stays consistent.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
But I also think that there's a lot of truth
to that. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
To go back to your original question, which would I
rather have? I think I'd rather be close because I'm
like you, I like to be invested in something you know,
because otherwise you get apathetic. But I also think the
secondary answer to that, which is something that you have,
it's something that I have. It's not something that you know.
It's something I lost. We didn't have with the North Stars,
(24:11):
and you didn't have with the Sonics. Is ownership that
cares about the community and winning. Yeah right, that's all
that sports is. And so I think more than getting close,
I think having like an ownership group that actually is
invested in winning a title and building in the community
in a way. Because you hear that with the Seahawks,
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people like to go be a part of that organization.
They really like the way people talk about the Vikings organization.
That to me is the big deal and the thing
that allows you to reinvest because you're like, well, at
some point, at some point, it has to work out.
Now you here's my question back to you, because you
(24:53):
won that Super Bowl and then all of a sudden,
it's like you guys entered into this almost new era.
We're like, well, they're kind of just one of the
franchises that they might have to rebuild, but they'll be back.
You're just expected to be there. I mean, where were
you at before that in that same regard, because it
was just years of misery with one hassleback miss like
you were us with less of a long history before
(25:17):
that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Yeah, I think you you know, when you don't have
a winning history. That super Bowl in twenty five against
the Steelers. That was clearly rigged for Jerome Bettis to
walk off into the sunset. And even my Steeler fans
know that and will admit it slightly, But I mean
(25:39):
that was nobody cared about the Seahawks. We were small
markets still our small market team, but it's the one
sport where we have made more of a.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Splash in the zeitgeist, but at least for the Northwest.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
But yeah, it was a weird time because you're such
a you're such a die hard fan, but you're also
so aware of like, we're just not there.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We have a lot of holes on the team.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
And and then we get home Grin and Hasselback was
actually a gangster, and then sewn Sander wins MVP and
then gets on the Madden cover and then gets the
Madden curse, and then you know we had some you know,
great receivers and and then you.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Know it just it.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Getting Marshawn was like a big deal. I don't think
it was like a huge signing, but it was a big.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
It's like a back to the future timeline shift getting him.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah, totally, And honestly that happened under the Pete John regime.
Which you know, I went to USC one to five
for acting school, and Pete was our coach at that time.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
There was a thirty for thirty called Trojan War.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Which is basically about that time at USC, which is
just insane.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
And and so.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I felt like Pete was like almost like a secondary father,
and because my left when I was young.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Thanks for bringing it up.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I really felt like attached because he was with us
for seventeen fourteen and Seattle and then you know what
three or four in SC and it was just a
really unique thing to be attached to somebody like that
sports wise, where you have so much emotional attachment and investment.
And I was so pumped when he got there and
so bumped when he left. But he really, like, man,
(27:17):
it was so fun. I would I would listen to
I never listened to postgame conferences, but I'd watch Pete.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
All the time because he had this really.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Powerful, commanding, calm way of talking and so smart, and
so he loved it so much and loved the guys,
and you know, ultimately it got to a point to
where I just don't think, you know, his what he
was doing was was resonating anymore, is what it sounded
like and people maybe weren't fighting to play for him
the way that they were when he first got there.
But man, did he I mean, you know, Schneider talks
(27:48):
about all the time. He's like he was just a
he changed the way that you know, everybody was looking
at the game and the whole culture and the practices
were on fire, and like people were you know getting
you know, just getting that defense, you know, grabbing a
lot of guys that had chips on their shoulders and
were you know, overlooked by so many teams, and then
(28:10):
just creating an environment where people could truly be themselves.
And I think Pete really shined like that, and almost
the same way Billy Bean with baseball and the whole
moneyball stuff kind of trickled down to other.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Teams participating in that outlook.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Pete was a real goat with that. But Seattle people
are now so you live and die. We also are
just you know, craving a super Bowl that will wash
away twenty fourteen, and that will that Every year that
goes by, we get a little bit more removed from
(28:45):
it emotionally and physically.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But wow, dude, I'll.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Never I'll never forget where I was when that happened,
or where I was when I was my coach. I
was a fact kid play basketball going to my coach
called me Krispy Kreme out George Jabar And I'll never
forget that either.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Two moments. Yeah, Pete Carroll, he's a Vikings alumni. We
love him here in Minnesota. And I think people you said,
you know, like his message wore out. I think it's
like kind of one of those things, like great bands,
you like, unless you are literally the band right or
the Rolling Stones or one of these things, is somehow
escape that thing that puts a cap on your time period.
(29:32):
Like I think it's almost weird if you make it
that long and you're relating to like how many coaches
in the history of the NFL can say they captured
a period of time with a generation of players and
did like because you guys didn't just win a Super Bowl.
And I think the travesty in that loss is that
had you And this is how I feel about the
(29:52):
ninety eight Vikings, Like, had they ninety eight Vikings one,
we're sitting here talking about them as one of probably
the greatest teams of the last fiffty years. Had you
guys won that second Super Bowl, the term legion of
boom would be sitting right next to eighty five bears.
And not that it's not really highly regarded, but it's
just histories, narratives are defined by these little twists and turns,
(30:14):
and so to have presided over that in a way
where he changed the culture built it. He and Schneider
all that. That's like, good lord, you did that. Of course,
I mean at some point you don't relate. That's kind
of that's I think it's almost unrealistic to do anything
other if you were that successful. It's like Phil Jackson
GMing in New York, like, of course you're gonna suck
at that.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Dude, right right, Yeah, it's it's a pretty rare thing,
I think, to be as successful in a sport in
one spot like he was.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
And you know, true Testament a testament or testament A
true Testament?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Let's go, first Testament?
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Why do I say? Why do I say a Testament?
Speaker 1 (30:54):
The New Testament? The Old Testament?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
But I sometimes they'll say it when I go, I
don't think I've said that for like fifteen years, so
my mouth doesn't even know what to do.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
What's your favorite not to get all James lifted on you,
But what's your favorite word?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Well, first of all, I think that is just a
testament to you, homeboy, and I think mine is juxtaposition.
I use that as though I know what it means,
and I use it all what it means. No, it'll
be in my divorce papers. She'd be like his. His
use of juxtaposition pushed me to this place.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Oh my god, that's so funny. I'm a big I
like behoove.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh, behoove it behooves you love, behoof.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Love A good behoove. Yeah, behooves you.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, Like it would behoove to use an a sentence
spelling be style, it would behoove. The Minnesota Vikings front
office to resign Sammy Darnold to a ten year, four
hundred mil contract.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I'm gonna I want to ask you how this game goes.
But the last thing I wanted to say on that
is I love. I mean, for somebody who didn't see it,
give everybody your socials really quick. What's your Instagram?
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:56):
Yeah, at Adam Ray Comedy on Instagram, TikTok Twitter all that.
My website is Adam Ray Coomedy dot com where we
can find all my stand up dates, all the Doctor
Phil Live dates, which we have twenty cities in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
We are hitting Minnesota March second at the Orpheum.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That shows booked up and it's gonna be fire and
of course the Doctor Phil Live Netflix special Doctor Phil Unleashed.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
Check that out on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Also check out the Roast of twenty twenty four with Me,
Jeff Ross, Sam marril Mark Norman, miss Pat, Tim Dillon,
and Hanner Berner.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
That drops December twenty seventh.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
I'm plagers Joe Joe Biden on that I'm doing Joe Bideney,
Andy Imer f Hey, remember was he one of the
original Vikings. I knew those guys. I know those guy
was best friends with the guy from the State Farm,
Crise the Capitol one of this, Serena Willia whoop the
gold Birds and we're going up downs left right selects
start Biden twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Come on, we're gonna make groceres cheaper.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So that comes out of December twenty seventh. It's like
a recap of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Basically.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
The other reason people need to go to your Instagram
is cause your homeboy Sam Darnold literally is wearing an
Adam Ray as Doctor Phil hooded sweatshirt on his way
to the Monday night whiteout game against Chicago Bears. I know,
like you get to this point where your career grows,
you get to do these cool things Steelers, it's still
(33:17):
gotta be a weird moment, like because they just become
your friends and stuff. You're like, hey, the starting NFL quarterback,
who's you know, weren't it not for Josh Allen is
probably the in the MVP conversation right now just has
my silly comedy hooded sweatshirt on that hat. That's such
a cool thing when you think about who you were
as a kid and where you are now.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Totally.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Yeah, I mean I am such a sports fan and
such a you know, it is cool to be you know,
to meet people that you look up to, and yeah,
you're right, I don't even.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I know how you know, well revered Sam.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Is but yeah, he's he's just a busted guy, so
I don't, you know, it's like I joke with him
the way I joke with guys have known for twenty
years and and but but I.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Definitely, yeah, it's it's cool. But it's also he's a
big comedy fan, so it's like, you know, it's he.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Had been following me for a little bit when we
first met, and so for him too, he takes ownership
and seeing me kind of you know, have a cool
last couple of years and just you know, have things
kind of elevate in a more fun direction. And uh
and yeah and so and I'm you know, almost like
a supportive mom the way I messaged him sometimes.
Speaker 3 (34:29):
After certain things that he does. And yeah, that was
a sweet shout out and he was looking like a snack,
so that didn't hurt.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
You know, got to show the people of Minnesota that,
you know, Aaron Rodgers isn't the only you know, guy
out there that's that you know, looks like you could
be Brad Pitt's cousin. But yeah, it's it's awesome man,
and the doctor Phil Merch is so fun and people
really eat it fun. Trying to get Sammy to to
(34:55):
stick around hopefully and pop by that Orpheum show. But
he might be back in the OC at point. But
but who knows, if you guys take care of business,
he might just you know, he might.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Just they might just have to pave cement over him
and turn him into a statue.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
That's what I'm saying, Dude, put the statue down now
and let him know how much you care. Like that,
there's something to be said about the statue before you retire,
right while you're playing. It really speaks volumes as far
as how much you are committed to this guy long term.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
If this team ever wins, because you guys have the
statue of Lynch with the diving into the end zone backwards, right,
isn't that the statue is there somewhere in Seattle.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
That I don't think we have. I don't think I've
seen any statues.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
We've got a Griffy and Egar Martinez statue outside of
T Mobile Park.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
If the Vikings ever win a Super Bowl, and if
there's any sort of defining moment in that Super Bowl run,
the amount of like, I think there'll be a city
council moving like we're gonna do a lot of statues.
We're just gonna, you know, it'll look like when they
dig up like those terra Cotta warriors and an ancient civilization.
That's what Minneapolis will look like when somebody finds our
(36:02):
city fifty thousand years from now. Yeah, yeah, just a
bunch of Sam Darnold's just with their you know, just
with their their helmet in their hand all over the place.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
Dude.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
It's also cool that, you know, Sam obviously you know,
looks like he's not old enough to be in the uh,
you know stadium without his parents, so that.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I think growing the beard was a sweet move on
his part.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Everyone moved made him look like he's on Yellowstone or
or place to poker with, you know, with uh some
you know, shady guys from you know, like like like
he's friand like when you have a beard like that
and you still got like, you know, you know, a young,
affable vibe to you. It's definitely like he reminds me
of some of those kids that used to hang outside
(36:43):
like the AMPM in high school. But Sam's got this
clean cut, you know, California vibe too that I think
everyone's vibing with. And there is a laid back style
to him as a person that definitely I see translating
on the field.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Absolutely, he's in go mode. You guys are are lucky.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Well give me, I hate to do this to you,
but give me a prediction for the weekend.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
So I'm captain positive.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
I'm super optimistic about this weekend, even though I know,
you know are the pressures.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
I think more on us. You guys are rolling. Confidence
is high. You know.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Sam got me sideline passes the last time he was
in lumen Field at Seattle when he was with the
Panthers and they came in and took care of business
and then circle two years ago.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
I brought my eight year old nephew at the time,
who've never been to.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
A Hawks game. Football is his favorite sport. He is
a little psycho. He doesn't have all the updates on
his hard drive. His favorite move now is to smack
me when I go home and go like and subscribe
and then run out of the room. Well, he giggles
to himself, and I asked my front of my stepdad.
He is just like a little noodnick as my mom says,
full of spitting vinegar. And I take him to his
first Seahawks game. He's so pumped. We get a hotel
(37:56):
down to the stadium. He's like, this is the greatest
hotel I've ever stayed in my entire life. I'm like, yeah,
I mean it's you know, it's a looking to their
you know, they they have them everywhere. There's there's blood
on your pillow, by the way, And so he's like,
I went the bed closest to the window and he's
so pumped to go, oh to get a view of
the city. He's like, no, because if somebody breaks in
to kill us, they'll get you first. It's like all right,
and you know, and and then we go to the
(38:16):
game and we're on the sidelines. Sam comes over and says,
what up all this? And then rips the game. It
just takes takes us, you know, into h l territory.
And at one point my nephew runs away to try
to catch a punt. There were practice punts going on
in these and it helped mine and it bounces off
his little hands and I was like, dude, you can't
break away from me like that. He's like, it was
going to hit a girl that was standing on the sidelines.
(38:38):
I was like, dude, you're spitting game and trying to
grab a souvenir. Like we we go back to the
gift shop. He went a little blitz our mascot stuffed animal.
We're driving back home. I go, dude, this was a
great day. Man, He's like, it's the greatest day of
my whole life.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I'm glad him. He's like, dude, I mean I never
get to hang with you enough.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
I hang with your sisters, your twin sisters more because
they're older and and you know, usually don't smack me
in as much. And they're just you know, a little,
a little just cleaner as far as the give and take.
And he goes, yeah, and thanks for getting me blitzed
the stuff the animal. I go, sure, I go, I
guess what, every time you look at it, you can
remind yourself of how great today was.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
And then he goes, yeah, maybe I'll give it to
my kids someday. And I was like, dude, so sweet.
Speaker 2 (39:19):
And then a beat goes by it and he goes,
or I'll just die with him in my hands, and
I was like, ess, so your dad is a rapper,
so this makes sense.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
His dad. My brother in law's name is Dirte, which
is you know, yeah, you're that's.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Definitely when your sister comes over and is like, my god,
you guys, I'm I met someone special. The next one'
out of your mouth usually are I hope it's a
semi locally famous rapper named Dirte, and I hope he
talks about opening for DMX once all the time. He
is a great guy, a huge Hawks fan as well.
Dirte's prediction would be Seahawks twenty six, Vikings twenty one.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
I am going to go. It's gonna be a defensive battle.
I'm gonna go Seahawks. Man. Sammy is just on fire too, man,
he's he is, like you said, gun slinging. I'm gonna go. See.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
I think we're gonna put up more points than you
guys anticipate. I think Gino's gonna come back with a vengeance.
I'm going Seahawks thirty, Vikings twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
You're the king, dude. This means a lot. Thank you
for doing the show anytime. Baby.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Good to see us, Sach.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Thanks again to Adam Ray for joining the show, and hey,
be sure to check out Adam here in Minneapolis on
his Doctor Phil Live tour March second at the Orphium Theater.
Click the link below to get your tickets. Also, thank
you for listening to our podcast feed while you're here.
Give us a five star review, write a review that
really helps us. Finally, huge shout out to ticket Master,
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helping make this show happen. We will see you all
again next week.
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